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13), they must agree on the complex plane C. 2. Continuous-time convolution and the delta function Let / and g be functions in L1(IR). Then the (continuous-time) convolution of / and g is also an L1 (IR) function h defined by It is clear that h e L1(IR), and in fact, since 28 2. 1) yields: That is, the convolution operation is "commutative". Since / * g is in (IR) we can again convolve / * g with another function u € i1(IR); that is, we may consider (/ * g) * u. It is easy to see that Hence, the convolution operation is "associative" .

We also remark that the extension of F from L1(R) L2(IR) to L2(IR) is consistent with F originally defined on L1(IR). This can be easily verified by using basic Lebesgue theory. 2) extends to all of L2(IR). In fact, a little more can also be said, as follows. 13. 6) is also called the Parseval Identity. Proof. 6) follows by setting h to be each of the four functions in the inner product identity 2. 4, we had to restrict F-1 to the intersection of L1(IR) with the image of T because F- does not map L1(IR) into L1(IR).

Instead of windowing the Fourier and inverse Fourier transforms as the STFT does, the IWT windows the function (or signal) and its Fourier transform directly. This allows room for a dilation (or scale) parameter that narrows and widens the time-frequency window according to high and low frequencies. Inverting the IWT is required for reconstructing the signal from its decomposed local spectral information. Information on both continuous and discrete time observations will be considered. This leads to the study of frames and wavelet series in the last two sections of the chapter.